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Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by pezezin »

electroagenda wrote: post #71
electroagenda wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The phoneme 'th' does not exist in Spanish. So, we tend to mispronounce it. Many of us, at least for the native European Spanish speakers, pronounce a Spanish 'z' instead of 'th'. By the way, the spanish phoneme 'z' is pronounced differently to the english phoneme 'z'.

Just to be more precise: We can do that in "think" or "thanks". But not in "they". In the latter case we tend to mispronounce it as a Spanish phoneme 'd'.

Actually the sound /ð/ exists in Spanish, but it is an allophone of /d/. For example, the word dedo is pronounced as /'deðo/. That means that for a native Spanish speaker it is very difficult to learn to separate both sounds.

Taken from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_phonology#Consonants

"The phonemes /b/, /d/, and /ɡ/ are realized as approximants (namely [β̞, ð̞, ɣ˕], hereafter represented without the downtacks) or fricatives[6] in all places except after a pause, after a nasal consonant, or—in the case of /d/—after a lateral consonant; in such contexts they are realized as voiced stops.[7] (In one region of Spain, the area around Madrid, word-final /d/ is sometimes pronounced [θ] especially in a colloquial pronunciation of its name, Madriz ([maˈðɾiθ]).[8]) "

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by anthk »

userbinator wrote: post #32
cubefox wrote: post #20

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Oh. I was not aware that Nvidia means envy... (Because people would envy your for the amazing 3D graphics?)

That's the theme the company had since the beginning, and it's also used in its green eye logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidia https://wccftech.com/nvidias-name-origins-history-roman-myth...

In Spanish we have a saying which says "verde de envidia". Literally "enviously green", as being full of envy.

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by WJW »

pezezin wrote: post #78
WJW wrote: post #57

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Maybe they did and all involved thought it was hilarious.

I'm from Spain and knowing the average Spanish person, I can tell you that is exactly what would happen, followed by a "no hay huevos" (literally "no balls").

I like to imagine the entire engineering team being a little bit like the minions in this 24 second clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmCxtWrRQJ8

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by PartiallyTyped »

xbmcuser wrote: post #42
daqhris wrote: post #25

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Do you realize that now any human willing to expertiment with them is free to do. All it take is Internet access and an email address. Or a GPU-powered computer to ran them locally. My point is that we can not rightfully estimate who is using it or not. Some LLM models are publicly released after many private trials. Some people had access to GPT4 about 6 to 9 months before the official release. Not accounting primar…

Yup this is one of the reasons why when I see people talk about how it can't do this or that I am shocked by the blinders people have. Specially people working in science fields. There are millions of very smart people with access to a lot of data that previously that they might not have been able to use but now they will be able to. I can't read the millions of science papers published over the years but the kinds o…

I call it denial. Given GPT4, I am terrified of what three letter agencies have available today.

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by anthk »

pezezin wrote: post #81
electroagenda wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to be more precise: We can do that in "think" or "thanks". But not in "they". In the latter case we tend to mispronounce it as a Spanish phoneme 'd'.

Actually the sound /ð/ exists in Spanish, but it is an allophone of /d/. For example, the word dedo is pronounced as /'deðo/. That means that for a native Spanish speaker it is very difficult to learn to separate both sounds. Taken from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_phonology#Consonants "The phonemes /b/, /d/, and /ɡ/ are realized as approximants (namely [β̞, ð̞, ɣ˕], hereafter represented without t…

It's more obvious with "dado".

And, if the case of participles, we just nearly butcher the in-between 'd' in -ado as -ao, simillarly to the Southern speakers from the US on lots of words.

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by moffkalast »

copperx wrote: post #2

I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name. As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."

For those that don't speak Spanish, this is GPT4's frog dissection:

> The joke implies that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia might have come up with the name "CuLitho" because it sounds similar to the Spanish phrase "culo de envidia," which means "butt of envy" or "an envious butt." The phrase is often used to describe someone who is envious or jealous of another person's success or possessions.

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by andy_ppp »

moffkalast wrote: post #86
copperx wrote: post #2

I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name. As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."

For those that don't speak Spanish, this is GPT4's frog dissection: > The joke implies that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia might have come up with the name "CuLitho" because it sounds similar to the Spanish phrase "culo de envidia," which means "butt of envy" or "an envious butt." The phrase is often used to describe someone who is envious or jealous of another person's success or possessions.

I feel ChatGPT "understands" the vast majority of things better than me, which is very worrying. It's only going to get better too.

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

andy_ppp wrote: post #87
moffkalast wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those that don't speak Spanish, this is GPT4's frog dissection: > The joke implies that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia might have come up with the name "CuLitho" because it sounds similar to the Spanish phrase "culo de envidia," which means "butt of envy" or "an envious butt." The phrase is often used to describe someone who is envious or jealous of another person's success or possessions.

I feel ChatGPT "understands" the vast majority of things better than me, which is very worrying. It's only going to get better too.

While it's true that ChatGPT gives amazing explanations in many context, this one is not particularly good.

The point is not that CuLitho is similar to "culo" (ass), as the similarity is not that obvious.

The point is that it's practically identical to "culito" (little ass, where "little" is typically not literally about size, but more of an endearing term - another translation could be cute ass).

The similarity is large enough that, at least in places where we use that term (not sure if it's used in the whole Spanish-speaking world, but e.g. in Spain it is) there's no way to read that name with a straight face.

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

gonzus wrote: post #50
copperx wrote: post #2

I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name. As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."

Reminds me of the pico editor -- pico means penis in some Spanish-speaking countries (it also means beak, FWTW). I remember contacting that project to let them know, I guess they thought it would be alright.

I don't think it's comparable. Pico is highly polysemic. As you say, it also means beak, and it's also first person singular present of the verb "picar" (which is in turn polysemic, meaning to bite, or to have a snack, or to itch), and in Spain it can also be a small kiss, apart from being also a prefix in the metric system (the motivation for the editor's name) so it's not like most people would burst out laughing when hearing that word, as we are used to putting it in context and most meanings aren't about genitals. Just like some people have Dick as a surname and English-speaking people don't laugh, I guess.

Culitho is so unambiguous in Spanish, though, that it's hard not to laugh.

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by yosito »

m463 wrote: post #61
copperx wrote: post #2

I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name. As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."

So I think culo means, well "posterior" and adding -ito is an endearing term that means small in an affectionate way. so "precious posterior". nvidia is like envidia which is envy in spanish.

Culito is basically Spanish for "nice ass" or "sweet ass". "Que culito!" would be "What a nice ass!" or "What a sweet ass!". "Que culito de envidia!" would be something like "What an enviable little ass!", although without the sense of it being physically "little", as in most cases an ass described as a "culito" is probably pretty thick. Oh, and adding the T, making it "culitho" doesn't technically affect the pronunciation, but it means you have to say it with more swagger.

Source: I lived in the Caribbean and spent way too much time watching reggaeton and dembow music videos.

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